Gulp plugin for running a PHP server? - gulp

Question

I'm looking to transition over from grunt to gulp. However I'm not finding a way to serve PHP files with livereload support, such as gateway (https://www.npmjs.org/package/gateway) using mounts. Are ther any plugins out there for running/server PHP using a gulp task?

Answer 1

I asked totally the same question few weeks ago. I want to start a native PHP server under Gulp, because I like the syntax better than Grunt. I also want to use PHP just to include other HTML files. :) It turns out there is a 'gulp-connect-php' plugn which has a very similar syntax to 'grunt-php' plugin.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-connect-php
https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-php
Here is my code to Gulp:
var gulp = require('gulp'),
livereload = require('gulp-livereload'),
connectPHP = require('gulp-connect-php');
gulp.task('connect', function() {
connectPHP.server({
hostname: '0.0.0.0',
bin: 'C:/php/php.exe',
ini: 'C:/php/php.ini',
port: 8000,
base: 'dev',
livereload: true
});
});
I also setted the exe and ini file location.
If you interested in, this is the code for Grunt:
php: {
watch: {
options: {
livereload: true,
bin: 'C:/php/php.exe',
ini: 'C:/php/php.ini',
base: '../development',
port: 8000
}
}
}
I hope it helps!

Answer 2

I ended up using gulp-connect-php with http-proxy. In the end, my php serve task looked like this:
gulp.task('php-serve', ['styles', 'fonts'], function () {
connect.server({
port: 9001,
base: 'app',
open: false
});
var proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({});
browserSync({
notify: false,
port : 9000,
server: {
baseDir : ['.tmp', 'app'],
routes : {
'/bower_components': 'bower_components'
},
middleware: function (req, res, next) {
var url = req.url;
if (!url.match(/^\/(styles|fonts|bower_components)\//)) {
proxy.web(req, res, { target: '{ip address taken out}:9001' });
} else {
next();
}
}
}
});
// watch for changes
gulp.watch([
'app/*.html',
'app/*.php',
'app/scripts/**/*.js',
'app/images/**/*',
'.tmp/fonts/**/*'
]).on('change', reload);
gulp.watch('app/styles/**/*.scss', ['styles']);
gulp.watch('app/fonts/**/*', ['fonts']);
gulp.watch('bower.json', ['wiredep', 'fonts']);
});